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Letter from Cyrus Adler to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Cyrus Adler to Theodore Roosevelt

Cyrus Adler, acting secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, confirms receipt of President Roosevelt’s letter addressed to Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Walcott has recently left Washington, D.C., to spend time in the field, but the letter will be forwarded to him at once. Adler thanks Roosevelt for giving the Smithsonian Institution preference in receiving any specimens he collects on his safari, and asks that Roosevelt not communicate with any other museum until Walcott has a chance to receive the forwarded letter and respond. While Adler cannot promise anything, he feels justified saying that it is likely that the men and money necessary for Roosevelt’s trip will be forthcoming.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-23

Creator(s)

Adler, Cyrus, 1863-1940

British Museum, London

British Museum, London

Postcard showing a neoclassical style building with ionic columns and a sculpted frieze pediment above. People visible in the foreground and on the building’s steps. Charles C. Myers identifies it as the main entrance to the British Museum in London, England. He comments on the museum’s vast array of artifacts from around the world, many of which date to ancient times.

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Rotary Photo, E. C.; Myers, Charles C. (Charles Cleveland), 1879-1942

Postcard to Basil Treat

Postcard to Basil Treat

The Roosevelt bears at the wax museum. Number 19 in a series of postcards depicting scenes from Seymour Eaton’s “Roosevelt Bears” books. Postcard sent to Basil Treat by his mother who asks for a picture.

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1908-02-07

Creator(s)

Unknown

The popular tendency to rail at wealth is not entirely justified

The popular tendency to rail at wealth is not entirely justified

At the center, a group of working class individuals complain about the selfish accumulation of wealth by a small percentage of society. The surrounding vignettes illustrate the philanthropic deeds of the rich, such as a “Museum of Art” open to all, “Low-Rent Tenements,” “Free Milk for the Poor,” “Free Ice for the Poor,” “Fresh Air Excursion for Poor Mothers and Children,” “Free Kindergarten for Poor Children,” colleges endowed by wealthy citizens, health care centers, and “Free” libraries. Caption: Chorus of the Poor Man, the Socialist, the Dissatisfied Laborer, the Populist Farmer, the Demagogue, the Chronic Idler, and the Struggling Professional Man–“Down with Selfish, Grasping Capital!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-07-07

Creator(s)

Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937

The universal church of the future – from the present religious outlook

The universal church of the future – from the present religious outlook

Four men sit quietly beneath a shelf of “Books of Religious Reference” in a hall in a museum. A small crowd is gathered before them. Further along the hall, another group of four men sits quietly beneath a shelf of “Books of Scientific Reference.” Part of the display, labeled “Geography,” shows an owl perched on an open book labeled “Kosmos” and a man standing next to a globe. Further still along the hall, a man is lecturing to a large gathering in a section labeled “Chemistry.” Portraits of Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Darwin, Benedictus de Spinoza, and Thomas Paine hang from the vaulted archways above.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-01-10

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

The future of the ticker

The future of the ticker

An outlandishly dressed tour guide at a museum explains an exhibit showing a ticker tape machine to an equally outlandishly dressed couple touring the museum. Caption: Museum Attendant (in 1925) — These instruments, known as stock-tickers, were in use in Wall Street up to the year 1914. They were abandoned when the public got out of the market, and they are now very rare.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-01-07

Creator(s)

Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933

The national dime-museum – will be run during the presidential campaign

The national dime-museum – will be run during the presidential campaign

A gallery of presidential candidates includes, clockwise, from bottom left: John Kelly as a card-playing pig, Chester A. Arthur as “The Snake Charmer” charming a snake labeled “Stalwart Vote” with a horn labeled “Patronage,” Benjamin F. Butler as “What is it?,” “Siamese Twins Keifer [and] Robeson,” John A. Logan as the “Wild Zulu on the Warpath,” “Carlisle, Morrison, [and] Hewitt” as a “Wax Group of Three Heroes Who Perished in an Attempt to Reach the Pole of Tariff Reform,” “‘Richelieu’ Robinson” as a “Fire Eater,” Charles A. “Dana” as a “Screech Parrot,” a cage containing an “Un-Happy Family – N.Y. Board of Aldermen,” an “Ancient Mummy Exhumed Lately” labeled “1876 Fraud Issue – S. J. T.,” John “Sherman” as “The Man in the Bloody Shirt,” Henry Watterson as a buffalo, Whitelaw Reid as a giraffe, and Samuel J. Randall(?) as “The Democratic White Elephant,” William “Evarts” as the thin man, Roscoe Conkling as the bearded lady, David “Davis” as the Fat Lady, Robert Todd “Lincoln” and George F. “Edmunds” as “The Two Giants,” James G. Blaine as the tattooed man, T. C. “Platt” and William “Mahone” as Tom Thumb and his bride, and Samuel S. “Cox” as a dancing poodle. In the center is a stuffed tiger labeled “Tammany” on a pedestal labeled “Killed by Roosevelt.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-04-16

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt writes his mother from his honeymoon in London. He describes visiting Aunt Hattie and the only thing that marred the visit was the “slobbering” of the younger Bullochs. He also details paintings at the National Gallery and at South Kensington. He took Alice to “ladies day” at Epsom Races, driving in Hyde Park, the opera and Saint Paul’s.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1881-06-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919